2017 Winners

Employees at KCI Technologies are both its owners and its assets. The company stock is divided among all who are eligible. But that’s far from the only contribution KCI makes to keeping them happy at work. The company’s mission, the opportunities for growth and development, the flexible work hours...

Bridget Collins was inspired to become an educator when she was a young student at McDonogh School. She graduated in 1990, returned to the Owings Mills institution a decade later and has been there since. “A litmus test of an institution is how long people stay. This is my 18th year, and I’m surrounded...

Fortego is one of many Maryland-based cybersecurity firms thriving in an era when hacking is regularly in the headlines and warfare often takes place beyond the battlefield. “We are doing very important work for the safety and success of the country,” said Jen Rothenberger, director of human resources...

Honorable Mention

Rummel, Klepper & Kahl has grown over the course of nearly 100 years from two people in a Saratoga Street office to more than 1,200 employees nationwide, thanks to a reputation built on what it has helped build. Look around Maryland, and you’ll see major projects in which RK&K played a role: U.S....

Aerotek began in 1983 as a staffing company that specialized in providing engineers for the aerospace and defense industries. Co-founded by current Ravens owner Steve Biscottii, it has expanded well beyond that in the decades since, becoming a global firm with around 8,000 internal employees, including...

The agents at Cummings & Co. Realtors are highly experienced, many of them drawn to a company they feel far surpasses anywhere they’ve worked before — and many more joining with each passing month. The staff averages more than 12 years in the industry. The company has opened two more offices in...

Agents at Keller Williams American Premier Realty in Bel Air appreciate that their workdays so often involve helping others — not just clients seeking to buy or sell homes, but their colleagues as well. “Everyone works together. It’s not cutthroat,” said Debbie Jaffey, the director of agent services,...

When the Department of Defense or the U.S. intelligence community needs software to help complete their missions, WaveStrike is one of the firms they count on to help develop those tools. “We want to make sure everybody in America is safe,” said Mike Wagner, Wavestrike’s chief technology officer....

The turning point for Silberstein Insurance Group (SIG) came about seven years ago. “We had sort of lost our way,” said Richard Silberstein, the namesake founder. And so began a major transformation for the Baltimore-based human resources and employee benefits company. After years of helping other...